Insurance & Risk Management | Industry Pathways Event

Industry Pathways: Insurance & Risk Management

Wednesday, February 17, 2027 | [Start–End Time, Time Zone]
Virtual Event

Understand Risk. Protect People. Strengthen Resilience.

Wildfires, severe storms, and AI adoption are changing how insurers assess exposure, make decisions, and serve customers. These shifts bring a practical challenge into focus: how to anticipate uncertainty, reduce harm, and help people recover when losses occur. For transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses, this event explores careers where investigative judgment, financial analysis, operational planning, technical knowledge, and clear communication can contribute to protecting families, businesses, and communities. swissre.com

About FourBlock Industry Pathways

FourBlock Industry Pathways address workforce demand and skill gaps by organizing engagement at the industry level rather than the job level, creating a system where employers, talent, and workforce demand are aligned in real time.

This event helps participants understand insurance and risk management, recognize where their experience fits, and connect with employer perspectives on career pathways.

Industry Sector

Finance & Markets

This event focuses on the organizations and professionals that evaluate risk, provide financial protection, and help individuals and businesses manage uncertainty.

Market Signals

• Catastrophe losses highlight the importance of prevention and recovery: Global insured natural catastrophe losses totaled $107 billion in 2025, driven largely by severe thunderstorms and wildfires. These losses illustrate the practical importance of catastrophe modeling, property risk assessment, claims response, and measures that reduce damage before an event occurs. swissre.com

• AI is changing insurance operations: In a survey conducted from November 2024 through January 2025, 84% of 93 responding health insurers reported using AI or machine learning. Reported applications included fraud detection and customer-facing processes, suggesting career areas to explore in analytics, implementation, investigations, and service improvement. content.naic.org

• Technology adoption brings governance responsibilities: Insurance regulators are developing tools to examine insurers’ AI use, data inputs, governance, and risk controls. For career explorers, this highlights the intersection of insurance knowledge, data quality, model oversight, and consumer protection. NAIC

• Quantitative risk careers have a positive projected outlook: Actuary employment is projected to grow 9% from 2025 to 2035. This long-term forecast points to a specialized pathway in pricing products and evaluating uncertainty; actuarial work requires strong mathematical preparation and a series of professional exams. bls.gov

Explore Career Paths In

• Underwriting: Evaluate exposures and determine appropriate coverage, pricing, and policy terms.

• Claims Adjusting & Claims Operations: Investigate losses, assess coverage, and coordinate the claims process.

• Risk Engineering & Loss Control: Assess facilities and operations, then recommend ways to prevent injuries and damage.

• Actuarial Science & Pricing: Apply mathematics and statistics to estimate future costs and financial risk.

• Catastrophe Modeling & Exposure Analytics: Analyze how disasters could affect properties and insurance portfolios.

• Insurance Brokerage & Client Advisory: Help clients understand exposures and evaluate coverage options; licensing may apply.

• Enterprise Risk Management: Connect operational, financial, and strategic risks to organizational decisions.

• Fraud Investigations: Examine suspicious claims, evaluate evidence, and communicate findings.

• Insurance Technology & AI Governance: Improve workflows while assessing data quality, system performance, and oversight.

• Business Continuity & Resilience: Help organizations prepare for disruption and restore essential operations.

What to Expect

Expert Panel Discussion

Hear from leaders across insurance and risk management as they share perspectives on industry trends, workforce needs, and hiring considerations for veterans and military spouses. Topics will include catastrophe preparedness, technology-enabled claims and underwriting, responsible AI adoption, and the relationship between preventing losses and supporting recovery.

Participants will better understand how insurers, brokers, and corporate risk teams work together. Explore how qualifications differ across analytical, technical, investigative, and client-facing roles—and how to demonstrate relevant experience when pursuing a new direction.

Virtual Breakout Sessions

Connect directly with employer partners, recruiters, and hiring managers to explore pathways aligned with your experience and interests, including underwriting, claims, risk engineering, fraud investigations, and insurance technology.

Ask about transferable skills, entry points, licensing or certification requirements, and career progression. Discuss how experience in safety, logistics, financial analysis, investigations, project delivery, or customer service could translate into insurance work. Identify which capabilities you can demonstrate today and where additional preparation could strengthen your candidacy.

Who Should Attend?

This event is open to all transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses interested in insurance, risk management, financial protection, or organizational resilience.

Whether you are exploring a new industry or building on professional experience, bring your questions and perspective. Skills in assessing uncertainty, investigating problems, managing resources, improving processes, and helping people navigate difficult situations offer useful starting points for exploring these pathways. Participants still learning where they fit are welcome.

Registration

Discover where your experience can help people and organizations prepare, recover, and move forward.